IND 317 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: War Memorial Opera House, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gustave Eiffel
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What is material culture: archaeology, designing triad, artifacts and people, study of relations between artifacts and people, people"s relationship to and perception of objects are social and cultural dependent. arjun appadurai, artifact/user interface, tools, structures, & signs. Tools are everyday things that are mobile are extensions of human capabilities, and serve to satisfy human needs and wants. 2: launched again in 1980 as post-it notes, yellow was deliberated chosen; only colored paper available at the time, lesson 1: there"s always the potential for success from failure, lesson 2: persevere. Never give up: lesson 3: specific use can often lead to wider use. The laser sailboat: only for the wealthy elite people. The sizechina project: robert ball is a designer and helped the design of helmets, he wanted to figure out why koreans did not like the design of his helmets so he found focus groups.
